Sunday, 20 September 2015

The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose…

I’ve made this
card for a friend’s birthday and, as she is more elegant than alternate, I’ve
turned what looked like a tattoo into body jewellery through some very fiddly
paper tole.Not to set myself too easy a
task I also paper tolled the tiny butterfly in her hair, very fiddly stuff
indeed!

I started out
with the image in mind and then used the photo inspiration from Live and Love Crafts to help me decorate my card. The palette
of browns and creams from the photo gave a lovely vintage feel to the card and I
picked up the pink in my butterflies.I used
the roses themselves in my floral embellies.I also used the lace and various trims as inspiration to add to my
embellies.

At Paradise of Stamps, they are looking for ribbon, lace and pearls, all of which I have
covered.I added tiny pearls to both
butterflies for their bodies and also twisted some Memory Thread around some
pearl trim to put round my flowers.There
was a lot of space in the lace I used so I threaded through some ribbon and
finished off with three large pearls (just realised they look like metal screws in the photo!).

My card follows
the current sketch at Sparkles Monthly.I decided not to cut paper for the round element but instead made this
from flowers coloured with PanPastels. I
nestled a butterfly I punched with my new Tim Holtz punch among the flowers to
break up the browns and also to tie in with the image.

3 comments:

Wow! Your interpretation of the sketch is awesome. A beautiful image, gorgeous colouring. I adore how you have created the circle with flowers. I am sure your friend will be thrilled. Thanks for joining us at Sparkles Monthly Caz DT